--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she > is better off than > > many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history > lessons. > > What really lies behind Shemp's claim that poverty in the US has > been > > eliminated is a reactionary political agenda that is typical of > the Bush > > administration. > > > > > > When I read stuff like this about the Bush Administration, I don't > know whether to laugh or cry. > > feste37, have you ever looked at the federal government budget? If > you had you would know that the Bush Administration is spending MORE > of our money than LESS...even on all the varied social programs and > entitlement programs that the federal government doles out. > > It seems to me that you are buying into the stereotype of the Bush > Administration as some sort of conservative cut-back-on-government > right-wingers when they are the exact opposite...that's why many > conservatives are so unhappy with them. > > We're now over $2.4 trillion in our annual spending as a federal > government...WAY more than under Clinton. > > It's people like ME who want to cut back on all those social > programs, NOT people like Bush. > > It always kills me that newspeak defines a 'cut' as a reduction in the rate of growth in the budget. Just another subtlety of the age of enlightenment, I guess.
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